The Anderson Valley Advertiser (AVA) is a community-based, small-town weekly whose perspective on everything is likely to be at odds with received opinion. You haven’t read another paper like it because there isn’t one. Lots of people think the AVA is the best weekly newspaper in the country.
The Boontling Greeley Sheet
A Newspaper of General Circulation
Published weekly (every Wednesday)
Web
TheAVA.com continues the Anderson Valley Advertiser’s tradition of telling the stories about Mendocino County that no one else tells — and of telling those stories with a commitment to aggressive truth-telling. We also hope theAVA.com will be a vibrant forum for those of you with something to say — a home for engaged comments on the events in our community — and a place where we can do every day what newsprint cannot. We’ll have photo essays, audio and video interviews and blogs by AVA writers reinforced by the best writers on the Northcoast, including former Press Democrat reporter Mike Geniella.
Because good reporting costs money — driving around vast Mendocino County to sit in courtrooms, spending long hours on the phone with sources and their sources, sifting through reams of boring documents — we’re asking for your help in funding this new project. This is, after all, an experiment in community-supported journalism — an experiment we hope will make our coverage even more of a must read than it is now in print form.
We’re asking that you to subscribe to the website, for just $25 a year, to get full access to our stories and columns. Eventually, we hope the site will include years of archived issues (for now, a work in-progress), special investigations, local features and more. We’re asking you to donate — we’re a pending nonprofit — to help fund our efforts, or to buy our subscription-only stories for a buck a piece. Simply e-mail webeditor@theava.com and tell us which ones you’d like.
Staff
Bruce Anderson, editor and publisher
Mark Scaramella, major contributor
Ling Anderson, bookkeeping
John Kennaugh, logistics
Web Editors
Intern
Contributors
Alexander Cockburn
Bruce McEwen
David Severn
Spec MacQuayde
Steve Sparks
Todd Walton
Bruce Patterson
Steve Heilig
Dick Meister
Zack Anderson
Ken Hurst
David Yearsley
W.E. Rienka
Howard Belkamp
Robert Mailer Anderson
Robert Hal Brame
Eric Bergeson
Fred Gardner
Contributing Artists
Sandow Birk
Fred Sternkopf
